Ring experiments and chair threading
were claimed on many occasions. In October 1872 the
Religio-Philosophical Journal of
Chicago claimed to have witnessed this demonstration. The editor wrote: "We
had the pleasure of attending a seance at which Capt. Winslow was the
Medium. The manifestations were very fine. One remarkable feat is the union
of two solid iron rings, leaving them thus interlinked, and yet the metal
perfectly sound."